The Art of The House Party - July 18
About this Event
(Tax deductible - link)
Art Exhibition Walkthrough
- Contradictory Omens, Art Exhibition (May 16-August 20)
- https://www.darklaboratory.com/contradictory-omens
Work-in-Progress Salon - featuring a short film screening
Panel Discussion - The Art of Mothering
Black Ecologies Potluck and Patties - Parade Ground (Meet and Greet Mixer)
Agenda
🕑: 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Contradictory Omens, Art Exhibition, (Curator-led Walkthrough)
Host: Tao Leigh Goffe
Info: A group exhibition curated by Tao Leigh Goffe featuring artists using the saturation of light and dark formally as a sovereign aesthetic in response to the dominant narratives of conquest across the Americas. Afterwards the Dark Lab newsletter will be debuted alongside announcements of new artists-in-residence and initiatives with local community organizations.
🕑: 11:30 AM - 01:00 PM
Afro-Asia Group x Dark Lab: Work-In-Progress Salon
Host: Tao Leigh Goffe
Info: Join us for the inaugural Afro-Asia Group × Dark Lab Salon, a new series dedicated to works in progress, interdisciplinary exchange, and generous conversation across decolonizing the humanities, arts, and environmental justice. Conceived as an intimate gathering, the salon invites scholars, artists, filmmakers, and community members to share research before publication or exhibition, creating space for curiosity, thoughtful feedback, and unexpected connections.
This event features presentations by Lucas Joshi, who will share from his current project, "A Botanical Blackness," exploring the entanglements of race, plant life, and Black ecological thought in Goa, and filmmaker Laura Bustillos Jáquez, who will screen excerpts from her documentary examining the cultural, political, and environmental worlds of mezcal and agave in Mexico. Together, their projects invite us to consider how plants bear witness to histories of colonialism, labor, and migration.
🕑: 01:00 PM - 02:30 PM
The Art of Mothering
Host: Ania Freer
Info: Mothering is an art of improvisation, world-building, and gestation. Join Tao Leigh Goffe and Ania Freer for a conversation exploring how motherhood reshapes artistic practice, from the rhythms of daily life to the politics of reproduction, ecology, and collective futures. Together, they will reflect on the creative possibilities that emerge through unpredictability of caregiving and the ways parenting transforms our understanding of gender, time, labor, collaboration, and radical imagination. Blending personal experience as first time mothers with artistic inquiry, this panel invites artists, caregivers, and community members into a generous dialogue about making art while nurturing new life. We hope to make a space for an honest dialogue about ambition, exhaustion, and the ecosystems that make creativity possible.
🕑: 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Black Ecologies Potluck and Jamaican Patties (Parade Ground)
Host: Tajah Ellis
Info: Jamaican patties available on a first-come, first-served basis, and we warmly encourage everyone to bring a favorite dish, snack, or drink to share. Artists, scientists, activists, educators, students, neighbors, and families are all welcome. We'll begin with a simple icebreaker before settling into conversation across blankets on the Parade Ground at Governors Island. We're imagining a recurring series of seasonal gatherings on Governors Island that celebrate Black ecologies in all their forms from food and field recordings to marine science, poetry, migration, restoration, and environmental storytelling.
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